Final Project Reflection

I think my project on the Pussycat Dolls helped me a lot with setting up my final project. I learned that transitions are important even though I did not use that as much as I should have in my final project. Since my Pussycat Dolls project was all still images, it was easier for me to incorporate still images again in this project. In the future I would love to continue working on movies and music. Audacity was difficult for me to learn but I think if I could get the hand of it, it could be really fun. I really like to learn how to make movies flow better and how to make my point more clear. I think those ideas were easy for me during my Pussycat Dolls project, but was much harder with my final project. I would have liked to make my point of view more clear but I think adding clips from This Film Is Not Yet Rated helped with that. For personal pleasure I would love to keep working on imovie. It was so hard for me to learn how to work a mac successfully, especially a program like imovie. Audacity, like I said before, is something I would love to experiment with as well and learn more about it. This project was extremely challenging for me. I think my ideas were too big and I didn't do a well of enough job explaining them. Doing such a big project alone during finals week was also challenging and I wish I would have done it with a partner so the work would not have been so heavy on me. When I came into this class I knew how to shoot a movie and edit it but I did not know how to take someone else's work, edit it, and make it into something new and different. That was the most challenging for me. It is easy to upload some youtube videos and put them into imovie, but it's a whole different thing when we have to edit those and make it look good. I had trouble editing movies and putting them together with out messing up the audio. I think if I was more familiar with the imovie program this would have been easier, but thats a part of the experience. I am the proudest about making a movie which I had no idea about the topic. I'm also most proud about how many different ways I tried to make this movie good. If I didn't like something, I deleted it and started over. In the end I think this hurt me though, because it set me back and by the end of the semester when I had so much to do I couldn't put as much time and effort into this project as it needed. I wish I could make my opinion more clear through out this movie. This is hard for me because my opinion was the same as the movie but I didn't want to seem like I was just voicing their opinion. This project is rhetorically aware because it focus's on the way movies are rated. In society today, movies are a huge part of it but they are rated in ridiculous ways. Violence and gore are allowed in almost any movie today, which could be why we have such a violent society today. This movie helped to bring this topic into the public and make it aware to viewers and allow them to question the way movies are rated today.

Blog #10

Some of my revision plans are pretty simple, such as fixing audio levels, cutting down the music at the end, and slowing down facts and any text. Some more important things I will be fixing this next week are showing and adding in who is in charge of rating films, and what year. I will also show clips or still images of some movie example of each rating, such as G, PG, PG 13, R, and NC 17. I hope to look for interviews with Kevin Smith who I am not familiar with by during my workshopping last class Mike had suggested I look him up for more information. What I really hope to do with this now is add my own conclusion from this. My main focus right now is putting my own voice into the film and not just reiterate what the film has already said. I think if I do this it will make my project more interesting and captivating. I want to find clips of show such as South Park and play on the fact that they push the limits of the rating system. I think the South Park movie will be helpful with this since I have been told it also has interviews.